We have um, a capacity right now to have about 105 students. Um usually we hover between 80 and 909 95. As um in these last months of the school as students turn three, we get more and more and more kiddos enrolling. So in in this February, March, April, we get really full. Um we um are we operate with a full inclusion uh model. So in every classroom we have students with and without disabilities. We have six classrooms this year. Five of those classrooms are full day classrooms run from you know the full school day 8:30 to 3. And we have one classroom that has split sessions an AM class and a PM class. And we have amazing staff, some of whom are here. Yay. Um, a wonderful team. We have six general education teachers, one special education teacher. Um, we have amazing team of instructional assistants this year that help us.
As um in these last months of the school as students turn three, we get more and more and more kiddos enrolling. So in in this February, March, April, we get really full. Um we um are we operate with a full inclusion uh model. So in every classroom we have students with and without disabilities. We have six classrooms this year. Five of those classrooms are full day classrooms run from you know the full school day 8:30 to 3. And we have one classroom that has split sessions an AM class and a PM class. And we have amazing staff, some of whom are here. Yay. Um, a wonderful team. We have six general education teachers, one special education teacher. Um, we have amazing team of instructional assistants this year that help us. And we're really fortunate to have amazing service providers for speech and language um speech and language pathologists um occupational therapy and uh physical therapists that work with our students.
Uh and if we do move forward with anything like that, we'll share more information with the board before we do. Steven, do you know if it's been a deterrent in these other schools when they've implemented it? Has it worked? >> gotten feedback that it has, yes. That it has been a deterrent. >> Is there anywhere that you can borrow one and see how it works? >> We actually asked, and you cannot. You cannot borrow one. I just asked. The good news is the good news is they're rather inexpensive, and and I put that lightly, but um you can get one version for $200, so a wand for 200, and that is like with a battery that you'd have to change whenever it needs changing, or you can get one that's rechargeable, and that's uh like 290. So um they're not ultra expensive, right? So if we were to get two, which would be our goal, you know, you're looking at under $600 for for those.
So, it's a perfect use of that if we wanted to grow that program and add more, you know, we could even use those funds in that way as well. But they uh they didn't start charging us cuz the grant covered the beginning, and then now we're paying the difference. Okay. through the rest of the year. Thank you. That was Those were my questions. Thank you. Thanks for sending them to me ahead of time. I have a question on page three that I didn't send ahead of time. It's okay. Um so, I was looking at the the legal fees this time, and I noticed that on page three they're labeled January 26. Is that Yes, so it's the January legal bill that we pay in February. So, you pay it the next month. So, it [clears throat] showed up on these warrants actually cuz the check run was from March 5th.
It just depends on how we define backlog. >> So, if a project has been appropriated funds by the legislature, a CIP project that is appropriated funds, is that not a CIP project? Yes, it is. Yeah. >> It is. So, that's what it is. Right? I mean, I don't care if it's waiting for design. I don't care if it's waiting for The fact that it came to us as a CIP, we funded it as a CIP, so therefore, it is a CIP. Right, right. But, and then, so if that's how we're defining it, that's that's fine. Okay. So, I'm going to put that definition in, um, into that. Okay. So, we cleared that up. Um, is there any other questions, members? Any other questions?
in lift lab last year. Uh it was offered at most of our high school campuses. We had 38 unique courses across our sites with 152 students participating and they had an 86% successful completion rate. Some of our students took the same lift class more than once last summer because they weren't successful the first time they took it. So they took it again. Then we were offering inperson summer school is at Chandler High School. There we had 270 um courses attempted. 62 were completed successfully. So we had a 97% success rate. Junior high we had 75 attempted and 73 completed also 97% success rate and the credits earned were 131 out of 135. Um the in-person summer school primarily is a credit recovery program. It's not a acceleration program at all. When we offer that we're also serving students at IPS 504s that are current or former EL students.
Any questions? >> No. All right. I'll take a motion. I move to approve the 2026 2027 renewal of employment as presented and grant uh human resources permission to make adjustments as needed. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I motion carries five to zero. Okay, we're at um the information. Oh, um information discussion. Oh, >> just coming up like multiple. >> Yes, it just keeps coming up. >> Okay. All right. Information discussion 11.1 discussion and information on student achievement. um April report. >> All right. So, um what we're bringing to you tonight is a followup from board members horn requests horn's request at the last board meeting related to um reading and novels particularly in our 612 classrooms. Um so what we discovered in in following up on this was that um when we had the curriculum adoption last year um this is the year one of that adoption um we had a little bit of a miscommunication about the use of novels.
How what is the time? >> DB said they can have it done a few weeks. I'm just kidding. >> We don't know yet. We will uh we still are working through some uh some permitting and and they'll be we'll we haven't had our kickoff yet. So, we'll find out what the timeline is >> approximately. >> Okay. I couldn't give you one. >> Okay. But the pricing is set. >> No, we're still working to a GMP. We've got, you know, we we tried to at least work up some estimates when we did our proposal, but we'll see what the what the GMP turns into. We've got a great uh a great team on our hands with DVA. They they've done a lot of waterways and canals around the state. So we're we're excited to work with it. >> Do we have the cost for the engineering?
Uses that sends it right back to him. Oh, almost catches him. Oh, using using all these uh moves trying to keep Jaden guessing. It's harder to think of a strategy when you keep him guessing. Oh, rolling right away from the fishing rod, keeping his distance. Terry's also trying to destroy the landmines while >> there's that dangerous fishing rod. >> Yep. Throws him right to the top. But Terry is actually a relatively heavy character in this game. Oh, and he's a relatively hard-hitting one as well with calling Terry fat. >> It is not. He is. That is like pure muscle. It's kind of like Kingpin from Spider-Man. Yeah, >> got a lot of muscle and he's very heavy. >> You could have used somebody else as an example. >> I definitely could have >> a lot of muscle, but that's >> Oh, yeah. I could have used myself.
Any discussion? Okay. Well, roll call vote. John >> I. >> Dustin. >> I. >> Mike. >> I. >> Jody. >> I. >> And I am a I. Passed. 26-113. Approval of summer school courses. Dr. Brown. >> I'm recommending the board approve summer school. The summer school will be offered to students at their home school location with transportation provided. Following courses will be offered based
>> Correct. >> On top of the seven that >> absolutely correct kindergarters. >> Correct. Y. So our thought process this year was okay let's just look at what we offered last year the 75 right and take the delta for this year's offerings. So for instance in kindergarten so let me use grade one. So grade one we offered 10. We filled it with eight. I'm only recommending two spots because we we felt comfortable last year with 10. So, let's keep it there. And and for this year, let's take this as a methodology. Although when you get down into grade five and six and you'll notice that we're not asking for even though we have three seats that would be available out of the five we initially um projected or eighth grade where we had four we just had we had more students actually enroll into the community that were not school choice students.
And we're really fortunate to have amazing service providers for speech and language um, speech and language pathologists. um occupational therapy and a physical therapist that work with our students. Um it's an incredible team. Um also want to shout out we have amazing families. Some of our PTO and family members are here virtually tonight. So thank you to them. Um and as um our high school student was speaking, I was remiss in not including you know our community. We have um over the last couple years developed a really nice relationship with um uh ghs and they have students that come down and read with our kids and just you know hang out a a few times during the year. It's a great opportunity for our kids to play and be read to by older students, but it is equally wonderful for me and I think for our teachers to watch high school students and how they just rise to that occasion to take on that leadership and be mentors to our little people.
Um it's an incredible team. Um also want to shout out we have amazing families. Some of our PTO and family members are here virtually tonight. So, thank you to them. Um, and as um our high school student was speaking, I was remiss in not including, you know, our community. We have um over the last couple years developed a really nice relationship with um uh GHS and they have students that come down and read with our kids and just, you know, hang out a a few times during the year. It's a great opportunity for our kids to play and be read to by older students, but it is equally wonderful for me and I think for our teachers to watch high school students and how they just rise to that occasion to take on that leadership and be mentors to our little people. Um, this year we have three school improvement goals.
And it would just again help us uh because even once we put in the vape detection, um that still doesn't identify where students are hiding it, and and we can't always know that. I'm I'll leave it at that. For the purposes of that. Well said. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> That wasn't [snorts] part of the script, but it's all right. I didn't see that in there. That's all right. >> [laughter] >> I um I know that there was some discussion, so I reached out to Shipman and Goodwin uh and just asked uh the questions that were uh spoken about here at the table. Just, you know, what what do we know about costs and the opportunities or options for costs, and what are those like? So I did put some information in my updates that uh if we use a senior um attorney, uh it's 430 an hour, $430 an hour.
So, it would have been when the check printed. So, sometimes it's a it's a month catching up. But in the last page of the bill, I think the next one is the February. It's on page Yeah, it's on page eight. Oh, yeah, page eight. That's that would be February's bill and then that earlier page is January's bill. And we just received March's bill. So, it's just kind of stacked. Okay, so so when we cuz I did go back and look at warrants from previous months. So, so on the January to February it showed $10,000 to Lozano Smith. So, with that then so this would be in addition to that for January but we just didn't have get Yeah. What says January 26? So, I'm not certain without I pulled all the bills to label the warrants. But it could just be a typo there. And we get one bill every month from them.
Hearing none, thank you. Thank you. Okay. We are moving on to Senate Concurrent Resolution 78 and Senate Resolution 8 82. And Sorry, am I good three? That's why I'm sorry. 78 82 urging the Department of Education to strengthen menstrual health education initiatives and to adopt a comprehensive menstrual cycle curriculum. We have a number of people here to testify, beginning with Deonna. Who's testifying on this? Sorry. Uh Good afternoon, Chair Kim, Vice Chair Kidani, and members of the committee. I'm Teri Shijima, Assistant Superintendent, testifying on behalf of the Department of Education. The department stands on its written testimony, offering comments on SR SCR 78. We recognize the importance of menstrual health education as part of the sexual health education. The department continues to offer support to complex areas in schools in implementing related board policies and department requirements for puberty and sexual health education. Should this measure resolution move forward, the department recommends the language changes outlined in our written testimony to strengthen the alignment and scaffolding of elementary, middle, and high school content for menstrual health education.
a pretty diverse group of kids coming from around the district that enforce the program. Then in our Chandler online program for summer um 2025, they offered 44 different courses serving 3,835 students with a 93% pass rate. Something important to note here is that this past summer, Lift Lab is far more credit recovery. Um in person is far more credit recovery, but COA was offering advancement and credit recovery a little bit more flexible because they can do it online. um they come in person for lift lab and COA to do their final test. That's their inperson component. Some of the other trends with our junior and high school, junior high and high school that came out were um the number of students that were taking courses from external providers, so our competitors, right? And so we were seeing those credits being transferred in started asking questions.
So uh the intention in communicating with our 612 teachers was that uh we do not teach novels in isolation. We teach novels as a support to the core concept skills and standards in 612. um somehow or another playing the telephone game that got to don't teach novels. Um so I had a chance to sit down with Principal Loftess and the high school ELA team Friday before last feels like a month ago, but it wasn't that long ago. Um and have a conversation with them. So we we've cleared up that miscommunication about how novels should be used. Yes, we want novels used in the classroom. Um, one of the pieces that came up in that conversation and we're bringing to you tonight is some feedback from them about what does that really mean? So, we have um and you approved as part of board member Horn's motion on I think it was May 14th, 18th.
Being we're talking specifically about the engineering services, do we have the cost for the engineering services? >> So the engineering services and the project management services are based on a contract, a cooperative contract rate. So once the GMP is determined, those will be a percentage based on the GMP. So they're they're estimates now, but they will they'll reset once the GMP is finalized. >> Gotcha. Okay. All right. If there's no other questions, I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. Lisa, I have a motion and a second. >> Shante Rothschild. >> I. >> Ben Owens. >> Hi. >> Patty Catra. >> Hi. >> All right. Discussion possible approval of project manager service for Desert Sunrise High School phase three. Gosh, I love that. >> So, these next three items are related to Desert Sunrise High School phase three. Um again with FMG as project manager and then you'll see uh Chase building team as the contractor and Grace formerly or Winslow as the architect.
My bad. >> Yes. >> Could have could have could have used myself or Isabelle herself. No, Isabelle's actually a relatively light character in the game. Oh, and uses a don't sign to remind Terry, don't get that close to me. Sends him right up to the top. >> Well played. >> Mhm. All right. Yep. Isabelle playing a pretty vertical game using the net and once again with pre just like a previous one. Uh just like the previous uh time he sent uh Terry off the ledge using that using that slingshot and using those pots to a really good effect. The closer Jaden is when he fires his slingshot that stronger the stronger the pellet does you know. So so it is a game of how close can I get before I hit this um before I hit this attack. Oh, Isabelle's at a funny percentage again.